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Document how VOL connectors should format object tokens

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Description

HDF5's expectations for how the bytes of object tokens should be formatted need to be documented. Specifically, what needs to be documented is:

- Whether unused bytes of an object token (when the size of a token is less than `H5O_MAX_TOKEN_SIZE`) can be left uninitialized or if they should be set to a specific value or any value
- Whether there is a 1 to 1 mapping between an object and a particular object token byte stream or if multiple different object token byte streams can point to the same object
- The significance of the `token_size` field, as returned by the `H5VL_FILE_GET_CONT_INFO` VOL operation

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